Category: Lync / Skype for Business

Since I had to accumulate the following through trial and error of outdated links and outdated technet articles, I have created the up to date defacto version of how to connect to all Office 365 sessions through PowerShell. I divided each service up into its own section along with a …

The most popular PowerShell user interface IDE is Sapien’s PowerShell Studio which allows for an easy way to create WinForms applications. When packaging PowerShell code into an .exe file you can specify the version number, increasing it with each new release. If you create PowerShell based executable files with this …

Here is another common request for any Exchange or Unified Communications administrator. Someone will usually pop by and ask, “Who has this e-mail address?” The address could be one of many different types of objects. A user mailbox, shared mailbox, distribution list, public folder, contact or resource could all contain …

When a person’s name changes a lot of organizations implement different strategies of keeping relative addresses in sync. For Lync / Skype for Business and Exchange purposes the four attributes that are important are mail, proxyAddresses, msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress and userPrincipalName. For the best Lync / Skype for Business login experience it …

When I see administrators manually enabling all of their Lync / Skype for Business users it makes me cringe. With just a few lines of PowerShell and a scheduled task you can have users enabled for Lync / Skype for Business automatically. Simply copy the script examples and modify them …